*question for e-bayers*

[wildhorses]

if you sell on e-bay do you have to give them a tax id number or a social security number? in other words does e-bay report to the irs?

if you are drawing umemployment should the monies you recieve form seeling on e-bay be reportied as earned income for the week in which you are signing up?

[billyskank]

1. Hi wildhorses!

No idea about your questions dear, but :hug:

[wildhorses]

2. hiya sweetums--

:*:hug:*

how goes your new car?

[billyskank]

I don't know

I haven't got it yet. Pick it up next weekend. How are you sweets? :hug: :*

[wildhorses]

4. i am doing okay--it is like summer here today

:wtf:

i slept with the windows open and the ceiling fan going last nite :wow:


i just noticed how many typos i have in my op :blush:


what kind of car did you get? (sorry, i have not had a chance to open the thread)

[billyskank]

5. I bought a nice new Hummer

Okay, I bought one of these:



Vroom! :D

[wildhorses]

7. oh --that is very sporty looking

you will be looking very hot in that--what kind of car is it?

did you get it in the blue?

[billyskank]

8. It's called an Octavia

by Skoda, from the Czech Republic. Skoda are owned by VW. I wanted it in black, with blue my second choice, but they offered me £500 more on my trade-in against the model they happened to have in their showroom. So I ended up with another silver car instead.

[wildhorses]

9. silver is good--

black is too hot in the summer time

blue would have been nice but,

silver is very sexy!!

[Omphaloskepsis]

3. No...

If you sold a car or house.. You might need to report it.. I sold a computer for over two thousand and nothing ever came of it. This was years ago.

[wildhorses]

6. what about the people who run "e-bay stores"?

or regular sellers? i am assuming yours was just a one time deal. i have never sold on e-bay and i have only made one purchase.

[Omphaloskepsis]

10. eBay has a metric fuckload of lawyers..

Read everything very carefully.. Your obligations should be presented in some form of a EULA. Tens of thousands do the same thing with zero experience. I'm sure eBay has made sure people without any accounting experience can do it. It is a global flea market, I wouldn't worry about it..

I am not your lawyer..

[wildhorses]

11. i am considering selling my jewelry on e-bay but, i am asking

these questions in regards to a friend of mine (it's true, i swear) who has been selling on e-bay for years as a sideline. the company they worked for folded back in october and they have been signing up. i know that they asked have you earned any income this week and i just wondered how e-bay income would be figured into the equation :shrug:

[Karenca]

14. i sold a car on ebay---

It didn't need to be reported either.

[Whoa_Nelly]

12. Have been a seller on ebay

and last time I looked, eBay leaves the reporting to the IRS up to you.

That being said, the IRS has stated several times recently that it may be monitoring some eBay sales/sellers.

Do some research, and to help you in that, here's an article to start:
http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/abu/y205/m04/abu0140/s02

[wildhorses]

13. thanks for the link

and good to see you :hug::hi: